Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-24
cry COUNCIL.
OfficIat Pr0ekeuings of the Monday
Eyening,s Meeting,

bers present except Alderman Branch
and Mr.. Mayor.
On motion reading Of minutes OF pre-
vious meetings dispensed With and Same
approved.
Committee on finance and taxation
presented the following report:
To the Mayor and Council: Your
bill OF Tkos. Stewart, street commission
er, would respectfully report that they
would recommend tho payment of same,
providing Mr.. Stewart will furnish the
city with an itemized statement Of the
labor performed by him during the
month of January.
NJ. p. OLHNAH,
w. j. BRUoE.
JNo. MAX.
Finance COMMITTEES.
Alderman Grove offered the follow
ing amendment: "That the street COM
missioner be allowed bill for January
and that he be instructed to keep An
itemized account Of work performed
each day and present the same with bill
at the end OF the month"
On motion report IS amended adopted.
The CITY engineer presented the fol-
lowing report:
City Engineers Office, Yanktop, Feb.
S7th, lSS7-To his Honor the Mayor and
Gentlemen: In compliance with your
resolution Of Feb. 7th requiring q detail
cd statement and cost of all improve
ments made by orders from the city
council during tho present 1scal year, I
present herewith the following report /;
BRIDGES.
There has been constructed one new
wood bridge with pile substructure and
iron railing, with iron lamp posts on
opposite corners. 30 feet span. 10 feet
roadway acros Rhine creek on Bnrleigh
street, neal the Milwaukee railroad
depot, and the approaches from each
end filed up to the street grade, we'll
grayeled and finished to q 20 foot road
way, fenced on both sides, being g per-
manent and much needed improvement.
A similar bridge was also built on WAL
nut street, with the addition Of q five
foot side walk on the west side, the ap-
proaches being graded np. to the street
level, with q "a foot roadway grayeied
and fenced. The old Broadway bridge.
built in the spring OF 1881, was raised
up, new timbers put in whsfe required,
and the structure generally ovsrhaulsd
and repaired, making it perfectly safe
for some time to come. A foot bridge
Was built across the Rhine
on Plcotte street, for the accom-.
mediation Of citizens living on Main
street and on the hill, the total cost Of
these several bridges being as follows:
Walnut and Cedar street. original con-
tract $749. SO. Sidewalks to Walnut
street bridge $500, approaches on
Burleigh street 1866 90, approaches on
Walnut street $3.50. crawling and fenc-
Eng on both streets 1897, co.. repairs on
Broadway bridge SOB 90. Foot bridge
$500.
There has been constructed during
the past year about four thousand lineal
feet Of new plank sidewalk six feet wide,
nearly all Of which was built by the
property with but little expense
to the city, except for advertising and
services Of city engineer and something
over three hundred feet OF brick walks,
OF tho same or greater width. When
well laid brick for walks is certainly pre-.
ferable to wood, being equally cheap to
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WATER WORKS.
Under this head there has been numer-
Gus important improvements made
during the past year involving the ex-
penditure OF what appears at first glance
alarRe amount OF money bat when the
amount OF benefits and conveniences re-
sulting therefrom are taken into consid-
GRAFTON the costa dwindles into insignif-
canoe. At che beginning Of the present
fiscal year the supply from the old we'll
was not sufficient TO supply the demand,
besides it had to be raiaed into the tanks
by m OF the most uncertain contriv-
ances VI invented, 20 wind MILL" q
m Ehe first OF July ID was found that
$407, 90 dollars had been expended for
coal, engine, attendance 60, in siding
the wind mill to pump q very inadequ-
ate supply OF water into the tanks.. a.
new we'll was sunk at the cost of $500
dollars, proper conducting pipes with
the necessary valves, cut offs, &C., were
put in place ct q cost OF $500 dollars.
and the tanks were kept FULL whether the
Wind blew or not. Eighteen hundred
and atty feet Of new Xix inch mains were
laid. with the necessary five plugs. T's
and crosses at convenient stations at q
cost of 10000 dollars. A new house
was built over the well for the storing
OF implements and protection of valves,
&c., ut 9 cost OF 10000 dollars making q
total OF $6.653.l0 expended Ia this de-
partment.
sTREHrs I'M HIaHwAYs.
In this department during the past
year there has been opened under the
supervision ofithe street commissioners
tEenty-three Thousand Iinealfe feet OF water
bitches and cutters, the benefits OF whioh
may be easily seen IN the no~ dry and
we'll drained localities where but o year
ago ii was impossible to travel without
wading through from sir inches to I
foot Of mud, slqsh and dirty water. AL
little more than o mile OF now streets
have been built and nearly two miles
have been permenantly repaired and inn
proved, twelve hundred cubic yards OF
new filing being placed ID Douglas ave-
nue. alone between Third and Fifth
Main street from Picotte west
has been improved by the removal of
ten thousand cubic yards OF. dirt, CON-
q dangerous and almost impassi-
BILE country rosd into one Of the finest
and most used tboroughfares in the
city. The south side of seventh street,
between Broadway and Linn, was filed
up, requiring twelve hundred cubic
yards Of material, thereby diverting the
waste water from the Artesian we'll ard
also from one Of tho tributaries to the
Rhine into q proper channel and re-
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